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By spring of 1943, Prewitt was on his way to French Morocco, Algiers and Libya where American troops worked in concert with English regiments to prepare to invade Sicily.

At the age of 11, Vaira had to move again, to Casablanca in French Morocco.

Lowe’s recent inspirations have included “French Morocco in the 1960s and the Beatnik version of the South of France or what Jackie Onassis would have worn when she was with Aristotle Onassis,” the jewelry designer said.

In 1920, Edith Wharton published “In Morocco,” a detailed account of her time spent traveling through the region with Hubert Lyautey, who served as the resident general of French Morocco from 1912 to 1925.

After war broke out in Europe, but before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Vincennes was dispatched to French Morocco to pick up a shipment of gold.